With no plans to slow down just yet, Ahmed Kathrada has made at least 300 trips to Robben Island since his release after he was incarcerated as a political prisoner for decades of his life. This past Saturday, in Cape Town, a new book was launched by the Ahmed Kathrada[…]
One of Cape Town’s first Muslim women doctors passed away at the Rondebosch Medical Centre on Sunday night. Dr Khairunisa Parker, 81 took ill last week and was hospitalized on Friday. She graduated from UCT in 1959. She lived and schooled in Salt River and enrolled for the medical degree[…]
A Johanneburg couple will attempt to summit the highest peak in Africa, Kilimanjaro at the end of August 2015. However, Abubakr and Fahmeedah Nadat have seized the opportunity to use their journey as an initiative to raise awareness and money to help rebuild Palestine and assist the thousands displaced in Syria. In[…]
The South African National Zakah Fund (SANZAF) has had a busy few days as its volunteers countrywide put in extra hours for the annual fitrah programme. The initiative aims to assist families on the cape flats who living under dire conditions, many who cannot afford a simple meal on Eid[…]
A number of City of Cape Town employees will volunteer their time at the Pelican Park housing development as part of the Nelson Mandela International Build Week. “It’s a collaborative effort. They will essentially be working on the construction site,” Benedicta van Minnen, the city’s mayoral committee member for human[…]
The Cape Malay Choir Board will be staging a second protest against the closure of the Good Hope Centre after Ramadan, according to chairman Shafiek April. The Cape Malay choir fraternity are up in arms about the iconic venue’s pending lease to a film production company. The Board claims they were[…]
The two Cape Town properties bought by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa have been declared to Parliament and the Cabinet, the presidency said. It was responding to a report in City Press which stated Ramaphosa’s new luxury mansion will be built at the foot of Lion’s Head in Cape Town on[…]
While Cosatu has made it clear it has no intentions of allowing a debate or discussion about the reinstatement of Numsa or its former general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, Numsa was hopeful that other unions affiliated to Cosatu would be powerful enough to see them reinstated into the trade union federation.[…]
Explosions have rocked a string of Shia neighbourhoods across the Iraqi capital, killing at least 35 people and wounding another 70, police have said. The deadliest bombing took place in Baghdad’s northern Shaab neighbourhood when a man detonated an explosive vest in a crowded market, killing nine people and wounding[…]
At least 25 people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack near a military base in Afghanistan’s Khost province, where Afghan and foreign soldiers are stationed, authorities say. Al Jazeera’s Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said that the attack happened just before 7pm, when many people were breaking[…]
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